I believe that all my work explores the human desire or obsession for utopias, and the structure of all my works is the search for utopias lost and rediscovered.
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I was not influenced by Joyce although he's a great writer, and I love his work. I was influenced by Saint Augustine.Marguerite Young
If you know anything about James Whitcomb Riley, you know that Little Orphan Annie is one of the most fantastic characters who ever lived in America before Charlie Chaplin.
Marguerite Young
I would teach from nine to four, sleep an hour, and write from six until midnight, night after night.
Marguerite Young
I would say my theme has always been paradise lost, always the lost cause, the lost leader, the lost utopia.
Marguerite Young
I think the category between fiction and non-fiction is nothing. The poetry of non-fiction is as fabulous as any poetry you could ever write in fiction. Poets have greatly influenced me. The only difference between the novel as poem and the lyric as poem is the difference in length.
Marguerite Young
If you understand hallucination and illusion, you don't blindly follow any leader. You must know if the person is sane or insane, over the abyss.
Marguerite Young
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